Portrait of an Assassin - 1983
- 5 years ago
Shot on Super 8 film in 1983 (as a college project), this political-thriller was made on the campus of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. The movie takes place in Canada, and is the story of a hit man (played by Peter Coston) hired to take out a controversial Canadian politician.
Technically speaking, it's a miracle that this movie even exists, since the original footage was destroyed many years ago. This project originally started as a "film thesis" for a film production class, my senior year in college. It evolved into what would've been a feature film. We shot about a half hour's worth of footage, and I edited the project on film, with the intentions that one day, I would have the film professionally transferred to video, so I could professionally edit it. For the time being, I copied the movie onto videotape 28 yrs ago (on Hi8 video) off a cheap telecine, with the idea of using that video footage to edit the "work print" before I made the final release print. Sadly, the original film was destroyed about 12 yrs ago, and all that exists today is the "newly digitally edited" telecine footage you see here.
Technically speaking, it's a miracle that this movie even exists, since the original footage was destroyed many years ago. This project originally started as a "film thesis" for a film production class, my senior year in college. It evolved into what would've been a feature film. We shot about a half hour's worth of footage, and I edited the project on film, with the intentions that one day, I would have the film professionally transferred to video, so I could professionally edit it. For the time being, I copied the movie onto videotape 28 yrs ago (on Hi8 video) off a cheap telecine, with the idea of using that video footage to edit the "work print" before I made the final release print. Sadly, the original film was destroyed about 12 yrs ago, and all that exists today is the "newly digitally edited" telecine footage you see here.